Formação continuada para profissionais da educação na pandemia: transição educacional de pessoas com deficiência intelectual para o mundo do trabalho

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to analyze the continuing training of education professionals from the perspective of the transition to independent life with regard to the labor insertion of young people and adults with intellectual disabilities. This research has the particularity of having been carried out at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, a continuing education course was implemented for 29 education professionals from the Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities and Technology - SMPD, in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, with the debate on the theme in question. In view of this, action research was used as a methodology, combined with data collection through questionnaires, course forums, email, asynchronous meetings and communication applications made available throughout the course. In order to understand and analyze the continuing education course, data was triangulated and then analyzed thematically. We conclude, based on the course participants' reports, the importance of the debate on the insertion in the labor market of young people and adults with intellectual disabilities, mainly with regard to raising awareness among the family, school institution and company. As well, that the obstacles for the participation of these subjects are interconnected to the sociocultural scenario that constitute the history of the person with disability, being necessary, the effectiveness, inspection of public policies and legislations aimed at the labor insertion of these subjects. It is well known that the referred continuing education course contributed to the reflection on the transition to independent living, bringing benefits to the practice of education professionals, mainly on pedagogical strategies to be adopted by the SMPD as facilitators of social inclusion, such as the Individualized Transition Plan – ITP. However, through the dialogue of the course participants, obstacles arising from the troubled period of the Covid-19 pandemic are evident, in which they affected both the teaching process and personal daily life. It is noticed that continuing education is a favorable path for the dissemination of practices of an inclusive nature, emphasizing the look at a subject that is little discussed, but fundamental, which is the transition to an independent life for people with intellectual disabilities and the attributions that come with it. along with the adult stage.